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We made it home yesterday afternoon about 4pm but not before we spent one last day in Madrid. The hotel was big $$$$ and probably the worst hotel we’ve stayed at in all of our European ventures . But, what a great location…I guess that’s what we were really paying for anyway. We couldn’t leaveContinue reading “Last Day in Madrid”

We joined up with Big Dick and Brenda and spent the day checking out downtown Seville. The girls decided they could not go back to the US without a bounty from Zara so Dick and I checked out the local beer varieties while they took a short time to shop. That “short time” became aContinue reading “Downtown Sevilla…and Wedding”

For the past 2 days in Seville we have been putting on the steps to check out the city. Our hotel is away from the main city so most of the time we taxi into downtown then walk from there. Just like a lot of cities across the world, weekends are a time for familyContinue reading “Turismo en Sevilla.”

Long, but quick, day yesterday. We took an early train from Cádiz to Seville and checked into our hotel that is only a short distance from the wedding site for Saturday and Monday. After a quick siesta (don’t want to upset the customs), we took a taxi downtown to catch up with the wedding crew.Continue reading “On to Seville”

Since we spent the last few days putting mega steps on our feet we decided to make Thursday a chill day and take it easy. As usual, we started out with the great hotel breakfast then took a casual stroll towards the Cathedral to check out that scene. The Cádiz Cathedral took over 116 yearsContinue reading “Chill Day in Cádiz”

We asked my new best friend, ChatGPT, for suggestions of what to do with a full day in this beautiful coastal city. Among the highlights were, Lunch at the Central Market. Nothing like the one in Texas, great selection of local foods as well as just about any type of seafood imaginable. We chose severalContinue reading “Full Day in Cádiz”

We are less than 48 hours into our latest adventure and we’ve already had our share of PTA&F’s, although we know we have more coming. We left Newland on Monday morning to fly out of Charlotte but not before stopping by Nordstroms to return over $$$$ worth of women’s clothes. Apparently the 2026 woman justContinue reading “Planes, Trains, Automobiles & Feetsies”

Pulling Little Al behind my Ford F150 is a pretty easy task since he weighs less than 4,000 lbs. On our way back to Texas, however, a wind storm in Las Cruces made the drive a little more treacherous. I wasn’t concerned about pulling, I was more concerned about Little Al having a “great fall”Continue reading “The Drive”

Ok, we made it home…more on that later…just catching up. We had a great 3 days in Tubac and were able to play golf 2 of them, it rained us out on Tuesday. Tubac has 27 holes so we got to try each 9 hole course out and leave our wake of sprayed shots andContinue reading “Fun In Tubac…No Divertido en Nogales”

We spent our last 2 days in Phoenix cramming in all that we had planned to do when we arrived. Since it was the weekend, we decided against the elevated golf course rates and did something that wouldn’t cost as much…shopping and eating. We of course had to stop by our annual Italian run toContinue reading “Goodbye Phoenix, Hello Tubac”